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Massive ‘Shadow Tanker’ Fleet Helps Rogue Nations Evade U.S. Sanctions

The Trump administration’s “blockade” of illegal Venezuelan oil shipments is among the few serious efforts at controlling the “shadow fleet” or “dark fleet” – the vast armada of tankers flying false flags, submitting false paperwork, shutting down their identification equipment, and helping rogue nations like Russia, Iran, and Venezuela evade U.S. sanctions against their oil industries.

AHTOPOL, BULGARIA - DECEMBER 8: The Kairos oil tanker, a Gambian-flagged vessel believed t

Report: Trump Considers More Russia Sanctions as EU Eases Theirs

CBS News reported on Thursday that the Trump administration is considering further restrictions on Russian oil, gas, and banking, even as the European Union (EU) prepares to remove several ultra-rich Russian oligarchs from its sanctions list under pressure from Hungary and Slovakia.

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's Presiden